1/ Russian hospitals are overflowing with badly injured soldiers, who are lying for days in the hallways without even being treated, due to the doctors being so overworked. The men are not being compensated for their wounds, says one hospitalised soldier. ⬇️
2/ Vladimir Kazayev, a seriously wounded soldier from the 239th Tank Regiment (military unit 89547) of the 90th Tank Division, is being 'treated' at the War Veterans Hospital No. 2 in Moscow. However, he says, conditions there and at other hospitals are dire.
3/ “The hospitals are completely overflowing. The doctors are exhausted. It's hard for them too right now. There are so many 300s [wounded]. They're still bringing in the seriously ill, the very seriously ill. Entire trainloads are being sent to Moscow.
4/ "They transport seriously ill patients for three days, very difficult. Now there are a lot of amputations, amputations of legs or arms. You see guys without two legs traveling through the hospital. Before, this wasn’t particularly noticeable.
5/ "Now I notice that people without two legs are very common."
Before being sent to Moscow, Kazayev says he was in the 3rd Central Military Clinical Hospital in Krasnogorsk, Moscow Region, where the situation, according to him, is even more dire:
Before being sent to Moscow, Kazayev says he was in the 3rd Central Military Clinical Hospital in Krasnogorsk, Moscow Region, where the situation, according to him, is even more dire:
6/ "It’s a complete madhouse there. All the corridors are overcrowded, seriously ill men are lying in the corridors, there’s plenty of space. I lay there for a week, and they did absolutely nothing. That's how it is."
7/ Kazayev lost a leg in the battle of Avdiivka in July 2024, but he says that he has been cheated of his compensation payments, military pension, and disability status. The loss of his limb was miscategorised as a "general health condition" rather than a war wound:
8/ "They gave me a disability certificate stating that I had general health conditions. In other words, they treated me not as a military man, a participant in the Special Military Operation, but as an ordinary civilian."
9/ He says that he has no money for housing and no place to live. Kazayev has appealed to the Defenders of the Fatherland foundation established by Vladimir Putin to support veterans, but has received no response:
10/ "So the payments haven't arrived, nothing has been received. That's how the government works now . Money hasn't arrived for a long time, and there's no support whatsoever. So, to say everything is fine here is pointless — there are so many violations."
11/ As well as that, he says that the men in his unit were receiving barely a third of the daily combat pay they were promised:
12/ "For a long time, the combat pay that was supposed to be paid has not been paid. No one has been paid 8,000 [$99]; everyone is only being paid 3,000 [$37]. It is unclear where all the rest of the money has gone. They paid absolutely nothing. That's how it is." /end
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